Squee
- This page is about the immortal goblin of Weatherlight fame. For the goblin featured in a rhyme and battle cry, see List of secondary characters/Dominaria.
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| Details | |
| Race | Goblin |
| Birthplace | Kher Ridges, Dominaria |
| Lifetime | ~4185 AR[1][note 1] - present |
| Sources | |
| Rath and Storm, Mercadian Masques, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse | |
Squee was a goblin cabin-hand on the Skyship Weatherlight.[2] He is known for his foul cooking, love of eating bugs, and manner of speaking.
History
Because goblins on Dominaria are named by the mother while birthing, Squee is a quite common name. The name indicates that the birth was quite difficult.[3] When he was only ten years old, Squee saved Captain Sisay from his tribe and was exiled in response, leading him to request to join the Weatherlight's crew as a cabin boy.[1]
A genius - among Dominarian goblins at least - Squee was loyal to the crew and managed to save their lives on several occasions, taking a particularly important role during their time on Mercadia when, as a goblin, he was perceived to be one of the elite Kyrens and thus became an elite himself.[4] At some point, the Salvation Sphere found its way to him, protecting the purity of his soul. During the Phyrexian Invasion, Squee was captured by the Phyrexians, and granted immortality by Yawgmoth, so that he might be killed repeatedly by Ertai and Crovax. This backfired and allowed Squee to accidentally kill Ertai. His immortality outlasted the war and he survived centuries longer. He can now rightly claim to be the oldest, and possibly the wisest, goblin of Dominaria.[5]
Dominaria United
About a century before 4562, Squee became the king of a goblin clan[6], winning a trial by combat by tiring his opponent to death, a tactic he had developed while pit-fighting. Although he ushered in a new age of peace and progress, his clan was slowly infiltrated by Ertai's sleeper agents, and Squee was captured by Ertai and fully Compleated. However, Squee's body blew up the mountain and squished himself, destroying the Phyrexian cell in the process. Finding himself in a changed extradimensional space, Squee learned from Salvation that his soul had been removed from his body by the compleation process, and only by virtue of the body destroying itself did he have a chance to return. He was given a choice between dying permanently or returning to immortality, but chose a third option instead: being revived again, but only once more, becoming a mortal goblin again.[7]
Squee fought alongside Slimefoot in defense of Dominaria during New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse.[8][9]
Gallery
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Story appearances
| Title | Author | Publishing date | Set | Setting (plane) | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death and Salvation | Dan Sheehan | 2022-08-16 | Dominaria United | Dominaria | Squee, Bulp, Rarp, Spurna, Ertai, Salvation |
Trivia
- During Weatherlight design and development, Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes was put in charge of establishing Squee's mannerisms and style of speech.[10]
- In the Un-iverse, Squee is a casino hand rather than a cabin hand.[11]
- Despite losing his immortality during the events of Dominaria United, Slimefoot and Squee has a self-reanimation ability, seemingly referring back to Squee's past immortality.
- It's implied he only regained it temporarily in order to fight back against the returned Phyrexians, or one of Slimefoot's abilities has similar properties to Squee's former immortality.
In-game references
- Represented in:
- Associated cards:
- Depicted in:
- Call of the Wild (Weatherlight)
- Crumbling Sanctuary
- Fact or Fiction (Invasion)
- Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero
- Goblin Game
- Hidden Retreat
- Legerdemain
- Phyrexian Tyranny
- Recycle
- Side to Side (Unhinged)[12]
- Sisay's Ingenuity
- Sisay, Weatherlight Captain (Secret Lair, #9999)
- Snuff Out (Mercadian Masques)
- Tahngarth's Glare
- Quoted or referred to:
- Aggressive Sabotage
- Aluren
- Avizoa
- Battlefly Swarm
- Bayou Dragonfly
- Bloodrock Cyclops (Weatherlight)
- Cinder Wall (Weatherlight)
- Deadly Insect (Mercadian Masques)
- Dense Foliage (Weatherlight)
- Firefly
- Firestorm
- Fool's Tome
- Frog Tongue
- Goblin Bookie
- Goblin Grenadiers
- Horned Cheetah
- Horned Troll (Mercadian Masques)
- Horseshoe Crab (Tenth Edition)
- Kyren Flamewright
- Lowland Giant
- Manakin (Tempest)
- Medicine Bag
- Phantom Wings (Weatherlight)
- Phyrexian Battleflies
- Pincher Beetles
- Robber Fly
- Tainted Well
- Time Warp (Tempest)
- Zap
Notes
- ↑ The Tempest Characters page notes Squee was 10 when he joined the crew of the Skyship Weatherlight. As he is already serving on the crew in Part Two of Born to Greatness in 4195, he must have been born by 4185 AR.
References
- ↑ a b Tempest Characters (archived)
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (December 03, 2007). "Weather(light) Report". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Venters, Pete. (1997). "Dominian FAQ". The Duelist. Issue 21.
- ↑ Magic Arcana (July 23, 2007). "Squee's Regalia". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (April 20, 2018). "Legends from Dominaria’s past". The Official Magic: The Gathering Tumblr. Tumblr.
- ↑ Roy Graham (September 1, 2022). "The Legends You'll Find in Dominaria United". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Dan Sheehan (August 16, 2022). "Death and Salvation". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (Apr 3, 2023). "March of the Machine Learning, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Squee, the Immortal (Multiverse Legends)
- ↑ Jennifer Clarke-Wilkes]] (August 1997). "The Set of Sails". The Duelist #18, p.60-63
- ↑ Goblin Bookie
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (August 21, 2017). "Get It? Unhinged Edition, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.